RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant)

Posted by jsm71 (A) on July 1, 2015 at 04:06:43

In Reply to: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) posted by mr.bear on June 28, 2015 at 13:08:34:

I have little to offer in the way of recommendations. It seems you have tackled the majority of issues in a pretty good manner. Doing great HT or great 2ch is not hard to figure out, but doing both in one system is.

I also have the Thiel CS3s along with Thiel in wall center and on wall rears for my HT setup. It's a shame that the "new" Thiel has dropped architectural speakers from their lineup. They were and are still quite good. I also do not use the bass equalizer and that piece makes the speakers. I suspect dropping that from the mix and trying to use a subwoofer is a big reason you are blah about 2ch. I know that is why mine sound uninspiring. I recently had a friend help me lug the speakers along with the equalizer up to my primary listening room and they sounded pretty darn good again, although they can't touch my current 2ch speakers.

Your Lexicon pre is a great choice. If that isn't getting you good 2ch then you may have a speaker placement challenge or need to figure out how to re-insert that bass equalizer for 2ch and bypass the sub.

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Topic - A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - mr.bear 13:08:34 06/28/15 (22)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - fantja 07:52:32 07/02/15 (1)

Once you solve your biggest problem you have just promoted Number 2 - mcbuddah 11:28:30 07/02/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - jsm71 04:06:43 07/01/15 (2)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - mr.bear 00:17:57 07/06/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - dbphd 10:25:38 07/01/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - jsm71 13:32:50 06/30/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - daleda 07:59:13 06/29/15 (5)

Ditto -nt - E-Stat 12:17:12 06/29/15 (0)

Real issue - unclestu 11:54:02 06/29/15 (3)

RE: That's true but - mr.bear 09:20:33 06/30/15 (2)

There are processors that bypass all signal processing for two channel analog inputs - JoshT 06:43:31 07/02/15 (1)

There are processors that bypass all signal processing for multichannel analog inputs - Kal Rubinson 17:19:12 07/02/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - AbeCollins 20:20:14 06/28/15 (9)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - JoshT 06:38:27 07/02/15 (1)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - AbeCollins 00:53:09 07/03/15 (0)

Amen. - Kal Rubinson 06:45:37 06/29/15 (2)

How about the Krell Foundation? - JoshT 06:34:03 07/02/15 (1)

RE: How about the Krell Foundation? - Kal Rubinson 17:17:56 07/02/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - murali 05:49:50 06/29/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - three_sox 23:04:45 06/28/15 (2)

A recent demo I tried - DrChaos 11:11:20 06/29/15 (0)

RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - G Squared 05:44:18 06/29/15 (0)

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RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - jsm71 04:06:43 07/01/15 (2)

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RE: A/V Preamp For Stereo Music (Long rant) - dbphd 10:25:38 07/01/15 (0)

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